1920
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538t

TELEGRAM TO I. V. STALIN
August 2, 1920

Urgent. Cipher

To Stalin

We have just carried through a division of fronts in the Politburo so that you devote yourself exclusively to Wrangel. In connection with uprisings, especially in the Kuban, and then also in Siberia, the danger from Wrangel is becoming enormous, and within the Central Committee there is growing a tendency to conclude peace immediately with bourgeois Poland. I ask you very carefully to discuss the situation regarding Wrangel and give me your conclusion. I have agreed with the Commander-in-Chief that he will provide you with more ammunition, reinforcements, and aeroplanes. Dzerzhinsky together with his associates has established a Polish Revolutionary Committee and issued a manifesto.

Lenin

2028

NOTE TO D. I. KURSKY*
July 1920

Have measures been taken for the i m m e d i a t e (1) establishment of Soviet power in the liberated territories; (2) convocation of C o n g r e s s e s of Soviets; (3) expulsion of landowners, distribution of part of their lands to the poor peasantry, the remainder to soviets of farm laborers?

10*17

RESOLUTION ON THE SECRETARY'S NOTE
July 1920

In the reception room two comrades are waiting, brought
To Komprod
in from Azerbaijan, with a mandate from Narimanov.
for children
At your disposal 6 wagons of caviar. Awaiting your orders.

* D. I. Kursky had informed V. I. Lenin of a report received in the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic from the Western Front, that the offensive of the 15th Army is developing successfully, the Poles are retreating (5 guns captured, 20 thousand puds of hay, wagons with automobile materiel and other trophies captured). In Minsk province there are uprisings, partisans have derailed five trains.

L E N I N C O L L E C T I O N
13243

RESOLUTION ON A LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE TULA PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE*
August 9, 1920

1) Send to Lobachev (Commissariat of Food) to take measures
2) and to report back to me
3) demand an explanation from the Commissariat of Railways regarding the incident (250 versts
12 days**)
4) accelerate matters on point 3
5) place on the agenda of the Council of People's Commissars for Tuesday.

NOTE TO THE COMMISSARIAT OF JUSTICE
14
August 12, 1920

Comrade Kursky!

Who is publishing this so poorly?***

Chaos. Even the title is unclear.

A collection of trifles—and proclamations.

Has some stupid person or a saboteur been editing this?

It would be necessary to publish the most important e n a c t e d 
(now,
1920) decrees in a similar volume.

Lenin

33883

NOTE TO THE SMALL COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS****
August 12, 1920

To the Small Council: I request that you consider the petition (§ b in the Orgburo in part). It is necessary to satisfy it in a certain respect, because the struggle against illiteracy is a t a s k m o r e i m p o r t a n t t h a n o t h e r s.

Lenin

* The letter reported on the grave food situation in Tula.
** The Chairman of the Provincial Executive Committee complained that 11 wagons of rye sent to Tula from the Kochetovka supply depot on July 24, 1920, traveled 250 versts from Kochetovka to Tula in twelve days.
*** The reference is to a collection of enacted decrees of 1919, reprinted from the "Collection of Laws and Ordinances of the Workers' and Peasants' Government" for 1919.
**** Written on a letter from the directors of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for the Liquidation of Illiteracy with a request to strengthen the commission with necessary personnel. In section "b" of the letter it stated: "People are needed, about a dozen and a half qualified and unqualified workers. Recall from the localities, mobilize in Moscow".